Serious Kissing

Forgiving stories of women on the edge and in the middle. Ellen Chatfield grows up as part of the Make-Love-Not-War generation, teaches school in Puerto Rico, waitresses in the States, and never stops trying to figure out her personal politics and sexuality. Ellen's world clashes with other worlds -- those of go-go dancers and Maoists, seance participants and developmentally disabled singers -- but those clashes can often sound like an embrace.